Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2023

Myrh America II

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 Akhil Reed Amar writes in Myth America about the founding fathers.  He emphasizes Washington's importance to the Constitutional Conven...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

A New Constitutional Convention? No.

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 The Constitution has a provison for holding a new constitutional convention whose powers would be essentially unlimited (just as the origin...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Rights and Duties of "Natural Persons"

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 Apparently there's an environmental/legal movement to grant/recognize rights of natural features, such as rights.  I'd guess it...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Holton and Constitution

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 Reading Woody  Holton " Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution ".  Some arguments he stresses: the Founding Fathers...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

KISS and the Constitution

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 Reading Woody Holton's " Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution ". I'm about halfway through but already ha...
Wednesday, October 06, 2021

Nondelegation Doctrine

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 Volkh Conspiracy has a guest poster writing on the "nondelegation doctrine", the idea that Congress should grant power to the ex...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

The Problems With Executive Action

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 Dylan Mathews has a post at Vox: "10 enormously consequential things Biden can do without the Senate". He writes: "Pushing ...
Friday, December 21, 2018

How Politics Works--Give With One Hand and Take...

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USDA this week announced a proposal to limit states ability to grant waivers of some SNAP provisions. Some weeks ago HHS announced propo...
Monday, April 09, 2018

Good Things from Trump's Win

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Two (sort of) good things from Trump's win: Reading Bill Kristol with a bit more openness to his opinions, since he's a never-Trum...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Security Through Chaos

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An Atlantic piece on how our political system is so chaotic there's no way to know how compromised our elections are. That's the...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Laboratories of Democracy: the Case of the US

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Justice Brandeis praised states as " laboratories of democracy", considering federalism is a way for states to experiment with dif...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Imagining the Future--the Founders

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John Fea comments on Sen. Mike Lee's Am history--good read.  Lee wrote that Alexander Hamilton could never have imagined the sort of bi...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

(Some) Founding Fathers Were Immigrants

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J.L. Bell at Boston 1775 has a post listing all the founders (i.e. signers of the various documents) who weren't born in the colonies.
Thursday, February 09, 2017

The Wonders of the Federal System: Hypocrisy

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One of the things the Founding Fathers did to us was to make us all hypocrites. Politico has a piece on liberals using the same constitu...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Stepping on a Stick on a Stone

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Sometimes you can walk along and step on a stick, or a board, which happens to be in a seesaw position, sitting on a pivot point.  Your foot...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Originalism on the Electoral College

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Electoral college voting today.  Some, mostly Democrats, now believe in originalism as it pertains to the college--should be a set of indepe...
Friday, December 09, 2016

Founding Fathers and Conflict of Interest

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For those who believe in "originalism", a cautionary tale on the conflicts of interest between our first president.
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Schafly: Losing the War?

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I first became aware of Phyllis Schafly from her anti-LBJ diatribe.  Needless to say, I was not impressed.  She is widely credited with stop...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

President Trump Is Scary?

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Ezra Klein is afeared of the prospect of a Trump presidency. While I bow to few in my dislike of such a presidency, I also remember being...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Cover Crops

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I feels as if I've mentioned this before, but anyway. Tamar Haspel has an article in the Post on changes in "big ag", which...